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[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 25 minutes ago

At best, if it as as good as it's said, it helps your liver, kidneys and bladder by getting rid of noxious substances faster and at lower concentration levels.
As worst, if it has no benefits at all, you piss more often.

Unlike most "health" trends out there "drink more water" will be very good in the mid and long term if it works and only mildy inconvenient if it doesn't, so logically it seems worth trying unless you're in the kind of situation where taking a piss is somehow dangerous.

IMHO, people going for "convenience today" above all else is behind most of the shitty trends in most present day societies, and I don't just mean it in health terms.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago

Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you and you will resent its absence.

[-] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 42 points 4 hours ago

I've been preaching this for quite a while now. If I have to post it again, so be it:

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 19 points 4 hours ago

Unless you are dehydrated drinking more water is of minimal benefit. Unless you're replacing other unhealthy drinks with water, but that's got little to do with the water.

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago

Drinking more water is the most effective way to prevent and manage kidney stones by diluting urine and stopping mineral crystals from clumping together

[-] Rothe@piefed.social 3 points 1 hour ago

It does seem like the "drink more water" propaganda which has gripped the US for many years now, has been an extremely succesful campaign for getting more Americans to lessen their sugary drink intake in favour of water. That is objectively a good thing.

The downside is all the Americans preaching to everyone else in the world on the internet about it, even though most of us already didn't drink excessive amounts of sugary drinks.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, it's over hyped.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 59 points 9 hours ago

I’ve found that once I increased my salt intake (along with my water intake) my brain fog, dizziness, exhaustion, and pee went away.

[-] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 hours ago

Electrolytes, what's that?

(To the tune of mxpx's "responsibility, what's that?")

[-] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 27 points 5 hours ago

How can you not be getting enough salt?? We don’t need that much and it’s in basically everything

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

🤷‍♂️

Maybe? Maybe not. It’s expensive to test for, and cheaper to treat the symptoms. And I can monitor my vitals myself.

~Finest healthcare in the world!~

[-] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Obviously I don’t know anything about you but I have cystic fibrosis so I lose a TON of salt and do need a high salt diet, some people who carry the cystic fibrosis gene express it fairly strongly and need more salt… could be something unusual like that I guess

[-] KalSeth@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

yeah, I saw that in an episode of Star Trek.

[-] WildBunnyGalaxy@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Mango chili LMNT packet in 40oz of ice water is my go to fav.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago

FYI they make mango chili Peeps.

[-] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 54 points 8 hours ago

Electrolytes, it’s what plants crave!

[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 40 points 8 hours ago

Your "pee went away"?

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 21 points 6 hours ago

[-] proudblond@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Wow seeing that gif was a forcible mental teleportation back into the early 90s.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago

Okay, slightly exaggerated. More like I stopped peeing as frequently.

Salt causes water retention.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 3 hours ago

sounds like dehydration

[-] SirHamlin@lemmy.world 25 points 8 hours ago

Intake water? Like from the toilet?

[-] titanicx@lemmy.zip 15 points 7 hours ago

Brawndo. It's got what we crave!

[-] xep@discuss.online 9 points 9 hours ago

Consider also reducing your sugar intake!

[-] Venat0r@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

TFW experiencing all the symptoms of addiction to sugar: "I must not be drinking enough water 🤔"

[-] Anchorxiety@reddthat.com 12 points 7 hours ago

I really struggle with this one. I love sugary treats. Chocolate, fizzy drinks, etc.

[-] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 14 points 7 hours ago

With fizzy drinks I found it very easy to shift towards flavored seltzers instead of it's the fizz specifically. And if it's sodas... Zero sugar soda tastes 99% the same as regular due to the mix of multiple sweeteners. Totally different from diet sodas which usually just use one or two, usually aspartame which also has a strong aftertaste.

If possible for chocolate, higher quality products often will hit that craving better than the cheap candy bar type stuff with 5x the amount of sugar.

[-] polotype@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

Be somewhat wary of artificial sweeteners, most of them are relatively new and so have unwanted side effects ore unknown side effect. (I geuss it's like vaping : better than smoking but not great). Some known ones include : cancer and obesity because you body cranks your calorie retention to the max (it sees a full can of something that tastes very much like sugar go in and no calories come out so it goes "wow, i'm really bad at extracting and storing energy. Let's improve that ! And you get fucked next time you eat sugar) anyways, as with everything, be mindfull with consumption

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 7 points 7 hours ago

It gets easier if you go 100% cold turkey for a few months; I stopped any kind of refined sugar in like 2016 and now more subtle sweetnesses stand out, and the occasion I eat things like ice cream with chocolate or a glazed jelly donut makes me physically ill.

I was recently given a monster and holy shit people drink that, by choice? Why is there so much??

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 6 points 6 hours ago

I had this too. After a month without sugar, I lost the taste for it. I can do a few spoons of icecream or a tiny bit of cake, but that's it. I can eat a shit ton of sweet fruit though. I ate 4 mangoes in a day. (Don't do that.)

[-] felbane@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

You're not my supervisor!

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

No u.

[-] BillyClark@piefed.social 91 points 9 hours ago

It wouldn't be surprising if a person who was drinking too little water was also getting too little sleep and too little exercise, so they could have multiple sources for the same symptoms.

[-] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 43 points 6 hours ago

Hey, you didn't have to make it personal...

[-] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 12 points 6 hours ago

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

[-] baatliwala@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

You post so many comments like that, sounds like you miss your ex and can't get over 🥀

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

my dude, i agree, but you've been doing that for what, three years? that doesn't really seem healthy.

[-] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 9 points 7 hours ago

I’m so tired of peeing. I drink the water I apparently need to survive. Then I have to go put the water somewhere else 5 minutes later. I drink water, I wash my hands, I leave, then I need to drink MORE water. Guess where that water ends up? Not in me! I give the water to my body and then like a child it tosses it out and demands more. All hours of the day and all hours of the night no matter what I am doing my life is interrupted by piss and this bullshit.